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‖ sephiroth, n. pl.|ˈsɛfɪrəʊθ|
Rarely in sing. sephira.
[late Heb. s⊇phīrōth, sing. s⊇phīrāh, f. sāphar to number.]
In the philosophy of the Cabbala, the ten hypostatized attributes or emanations by means of which the Infinite (ēin sōph) enters into relation with the finite.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes cii. 184 The Doctours of the Hebrewes say that this beast [the ass] is an example of fortitude.., and that his influence dependeth on Sephiroth, whiche is called Hochma, that is to say, wisdome. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. ix. 282 One Head in this Cabala was the doctrine of the Sephiroth. 1795T. Maurice Hindostan I. i. i. 72 Their [sc. the Rabbins] devout and rapturous expressions concerning the three great Sephiroth. 1847G. Soane New Curios. Lit. II. 76 This knowledge was in fact the original and proper Cabala, according to which..a number of Sephiroths, æons, or Emanations, flowed from God. 1855Smedley Occult Sciences 122 The seven names or sephira of the Hebrew Talmud. 1881A. O'Shaughnessy Songs of Worker 26 En Soph was manifest,..but splendour covered Him; And circles of the Sephiroth tenfold, Vast and mysterious, intervening rolled. 1900New Century Rev. VII. 376 In their totality these ten sephiroth represent and are called the Primordial or Archetypal man, Adam Kadmon... The seventh and eighth sephiroth, Firmness and Splendour, are the two legs... Kingdom, or Shekinah, the tenth sephira, represents the harmony of the whole archetypal man.
Hence sephiric (in recent Dicts.), sephirot(h)ic adjs., pertaining to the sephiroth.
1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-bk. 210 Matter cabalistic, archetypal, sephirotic, metaphysical, ideal, and divine. 1900New Century Rev. VII. 379 The following may be taken as the characteristic teaching of the Kabbalah:—..2. All that we perceive or know is of the sephirothic type. |